Cape Town, South Africa

University of Cape Town

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Onderwijs

UCT has published an AI in Education Framework for teaching, learning, and assessment, endorsed by the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee in June 2025, and it frames AI literacies, assessment integrity, and AI-enabled innovation as its roadmap.

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UCT has developed the UCT Framework for AI in Education: Generative and other AI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

Privacy

UCT advises administrative and support staff to treat AI inputs as public and not share personal, confidential, or UCT intellectual property with publicly available AI tools.

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Treat AI inputs as public: never share personal, confidential, or UCT intellectual property with publicly available AI tools.

Onderzoek

UCT's EiRC research guideline says researchers should use generative AI tools in the context of UCT policies and disclose AI use with a disclaimer or explanatory note describing where and how it was used.

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Researchers should use generative AI tools in the context of UCT policies.

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The UCT Senate Ethics in Research Committee (EiRC) has shared updated guidelines and recommendations for the responsible use of generative AI tools in research, that include an appendix which outlines a variety of possible use-cases in the research life cycle, with corresponding risk-rated activities.

Ai Tool Treatment

Microsoft Copilot Chat is listed for University of Cape Town in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.

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Genormaliseerde waarde: {"tool":"microsoft_copilot","rawToolName":"Microsoft Copilot Chat","description":"UCT recommends Copilot Chat and includes it in its Microsoft licence.","howToObtain":"Use Copilot Chat with the UCT Microsoft account.","costToUser":"No additional cost for UCT staff and students.","availability":"allowed","endorsementType":"institutionally_licensed_or_procured"}

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Copilot Chat is the recommended AI tool to be used at UCT. It is available to all UCT staff and students at no additional cost due to the UCT Microsoft licensing in place.

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Copilot Chat is the recommended AI tool to be used at UCT. It is available to all UCT staff and students at no additional cost due to the UCT Microsoft licensing in place.

Academic Integrity

UCT says AI detection tools remain unreliable and that their use is not supported at UCT.

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AI detection tools remain unreliable and their use is not supported at UCT.

Security Review

Before procuring generative AI tools, UCT staff or departments should consult ICTS and the tools must undergo information security and privacy risk assessment.

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Before procuring generative AI tools, staff or departments should consult with ICTS. All third-party AI tools must undergo an information security and privacy risk assessment.

Onderwijs

UCT CILT publishes open-access AI guides for staff, students, and researchers, and also offers interactive AI guides on Amathuba for UCT staff and students.

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To support UCT staff and students to navigate GenAI in education, we have developed comprehensive guides accessible to anyone interested in understanding and engaging with GenAI responsibly.

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Citation: University AI Policy Tracker. "University of Cape Town AI Policy Tracker record." Last checked July 19, 2026. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/university-of-cape-town

Original university source language remains canonical. This tracker is not an official university statement.

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